From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] CubaNews summary 11-1-2001 CubaNews summary November 1, 2001 ================================ THE WHAT AND WHERE OF TERRORISM GRANMA October 31, 2001 BY JULIO CESAR MEJIAS CARDENAS (Special for Granma International) FAMILIAR blemishes on the face of the White House are being revealed every day in favor of innocent civilians who continue to be the principal victims of the war and... genocide. The Afghan civilian population continues to be the main victim of U.S. bombardments. In the photo, a devastated father weeps over the body of his little son. (see photo: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/octu5/44terror-i.html ) It would seem that only the U.S. government and its allies in the ignominious aggression being suffered by Afghanistan believe that international terrorism can be destroyed by attacks on that Central Asian nation. What is terrorism for George W. Bush and his supporters in the government? At this stage of the aggression - the fourth week of implacable and criminal bombardments - the United States has still not produced any evidence that Osama Bin Laden masterminded the September 11 attacks. The millionaire Saudi Arabian lives on Afghan soil and is being ceaselessly sought as the man responsible for various acts of terrorism against U.S. interests, but that country might have overlooked that it was its security services that made him what he is. The objective is to destroy him, even though civilian victims continue increasing, as confirmed by images from Qatar's Al Jazeera television network. The principal economic and military fiefdoms of the 'invulnerable' U.S. empire have been attacked and now fear stalks alleys, streets and cities throughout the country. Many of its citizens cannot understand the reasons behind the attacks, as they are unaware of the policy of war and conflicts generated by successive U.S. governments in various parts of the world over more than one century, for the sake of political and economic expansionist interests. What is the terrorism that they are combating in Afghanistan? One that is no longer convenient, since they are ignoring the torturers and killers being sheltered in U.S. territory, those who will never be forgotten by the Latin American peoples after decades of bloody dictatorships and genocide. Where are they combating terrorism? In one of the poorest nations of the planet, which does not have any significant economic or military objectives, or rather, has nothing of interest to the West apart from its oil reserves and certain mineral resources. The terrible military apparatus the U.S. government and its allies claim is possessed by the Taliban forces is no more than a fantasy. In Afghanistan there is no war or military conflict between two nations, just the slaughter of the civilian population and some members of an indigenous militia at the hands of the most powerful armies in world history. How? The United States and its allies are bombarding military objectives for hours on end and missiles are "accidentally" landing on residential districts, mosques and stores belonging to the Red Cross and United Nations, where the scant food supplies arriving from abroad as humanitarian aid are kept. However, the great hypocrisy of the current warfare is to alternate the bombardments with dropping food parcels over a destroyed Kabul or the abandoned settlements of Afghan geography. So, who are the terrorists? Are the United States and its allies by chance forgetting their support for Israel, which has not halted its military action against the Palestinians, and continues to violate the integrity of the autonomous cities and to occupy territories belonging to other Arab nations. Syria, for example, ratified before Spaniard Miguel Angel Morantinos, the European Union special envoy to the Middle East, its call on the UN to fairly define the term terrorism. Damascus has affirmed that it does not agree with the U.S. point of view in relation to the Arab organizations that are fighting against the foreign occupation of their territories, and defends the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, especially the struggle of the Palestinian people against the constant aggression of the Israeli government, incapable of respecting the cease-fire agreements. Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, directly told the Israelis that they are also responsible for terrorism, given their refusal to apply the peace accords reached with the Palestinian people. The leader roundly rejected equating the Palestinian struggle with terrorism: "they are battling to recover their lands and if I advocate a Palestinian state, I do so also for the security of the Israelis." In Tehran, Kamal Jarazi, Iranian foreign affairs minister, reiterated his country's opposition to the U.S. attacks and affirmed that it is the government of the United States that "is converting terrorists into heroes." He added that the anti-terrorism campaign will be unsuccessful until the causes of the phenomenon and the genocide of the Palestinian and other Arab peoples are eliminated. The president of that nation, Mohammad Khatami, went further: "Destruction, hunger and the death of innocent people cannot be the price of the campaign against terrorism. The world battle against this scourge has to be carried out under the mandate and supervision of the United Nations." Moreover, an inflexible point has been reached in international relations, given that after almost one month of barbarity and desolation in Afghanistan, the Western powers continue to marginalize the UN and its decision making process. In addition, there is still no common position within the European Union in respect to the military action against Kabul: Britain immediately committed itself to the U.S. cause, while Germany continues to talk of sending in troops. When will the agony and pain of Afghans faced with the mowing down of their children, elderly and women by U.S. shelling end? Nobody knows and the worst part of it is that they are continuing to be the victims of the terrorism that the United States says it is combating. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/octu5/44terror-i.html ========================================== TARIQ ALI ARRESTED IN GERMANY JOHN PILGER: TERRORISM WAR A FRAUD Hear these and other extensive interviews on Democracy NOW! in Exile for October 31, 2001: http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/exile.html ===================================== RUSSIA BIDS FAIRWELL TO CUBA (PRAVDA) 19:50 2001-10-29 RUSSIA BIDS FAREWELL TO CUBA History repeats itself over and over again about Russia. "Russians, get out!", - yelled the people of the Baltic countries in 1990. "Russians, go home," - yelled the people in the Asian republics in 1991. "Russians, get out of Cuba!", - were the screams in the capital of Cuba yesterday. The demonstrations under anti-Russian slogans took place in Havana yesterday. This was the reaction of the Cuban population to the withdrawal of the Russian army base from Lourdes. The reaction of the official Cuban authorities is not much different from what could be heard in the streets of Havana, although it was shaped in the smooth diplomatic forms. Cuba considered the withdrawal of the Russian army base to be "a special present" from Vladimir Putin to American President George W. Bush. This phrase says it all, Russia is called "American bootlicker," insinuating with its recent enemy. The tone of the Cuban mass media is the same. It seems that Russia has been deprived of not only the military base in the region but also of an ally. That base, by the way, received 75% of the entire military and strategic information on America. Russia does not now have a country with which we had good relations with before. A year ago, this seemed impossible. Putin toured all the allies of the former USSR, and it seemed that there was considerable progress in that respect. Putin visited the military base in Lourdes as well, the base that is now being shut down according to his own instructions. It is very surprising how Russia is making the relations with its allies null and void. The local population in the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia is protesting the withdrawal of the Russian troops, but the Russian soldiers are leaving the territory of the republic anyway. Cuba asks not to liquidate the army base, offering to revise the leasing conditions, but the base is being removed. What other reaction may follow? Reuters photo : The secret Russian listening station at Lourdes some 30 km south of Havana is seen in this December 13, 2000 file photograph PHOTO AT PRAVDA WEBSITE: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/29/19496.html ========================================== "PLANET RICE" ON HAVANA TRADE FAIR: U.S. Rice to Exhibit at Cuba Trade Show, Oct. 28-Nov. 4 This will be the first time Cubans can try U.S. rice in 40 years, USA Rice says October 30, 2001 The USA Rice Federation (USA Rice) will exhibit U.S. rice and rice products in the 19th International Fair, Oct. 28-Nov. 4, in Havana, Cuba. "Participation in the International Fair in Cuba is a diversification of our market outreach efforts to this country," said USA Rice Council Chairman Jimmy Hoppe, a Louisiana rice producer, in a 26 Oct. USA Rice Federation press release. "USA Rice has been involved from the beginning in the fight to obtain sanctions to reform legislation that allows food and medicine sales from the United States to Cuba," Hoppe said. Staffing the booth at the fair will be Marvin Lehrer, USA Rice Director, Latin America, and Promotions Director Gaby Carbajal, USA Rice Mexico. Lehrer and Carbajal will promote U.S.-grown rice to fair attendees in a variety of ways, including cooking demonstrations and taste testings. U.S. long grain rice will be on display in the USA Rice booth in 1-pound, 5-pound, 10-pound, and 25-pound packages. A variety of boxed flavored rice mixes will also be displayed. This will be the first opportunity for Cuban consumers to experience U.S. rice in nearly 40 years, USA Rice claims. Until 1962 Cuba was the top export market for U.S. rice. Trade sanctions imposed that year have cost American rice farmers an estimated $3 billion. A recent U.S. International Trade Commission report estimates that U.S. rice exports to Cuba could total nearly $60 million annually. Long-awaited regulations that implement last year's trade reform legislation took effect in July. A purchase by Cuba of U.S. rice is the next step needed to reopen the market for American farmers, Hoppe said. "A purchase of U.S. rice by Cuba would provide a tremendous boost to our efforts to obtain further sanctions reform," he said. "Displaying and providing samples of U.S. rice at the International Fair in Cuba allows us to showcase high-quality products that are available for purchase." The 10-day fair Cuba's largest and most important trade show, and is jointly sponsored by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba, and Havana's International Conference Center. USA Rice is a federation of U.S. rice producers, millers and allied businesses working together to address common challenges, advocate collective interests, and create opportunities to strengthen the long-term economic viability of the U.S. rice industry. USA Rice members are active in all rice-producing states: Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. The U.S. Rice Producers' Group, USA Rice Council and Rice Millers' Association are charter members of USA Rice. Contact: Cyndie Shearing-Sirekis, (703) 351-8161 http://www.planetrice.net/newspub/story.cfm?id=1215 ======================================== THE VICTIMS (excerpt from a longer article on those killed on September 11, 2001) from the New York Times of 10-31-2001) SCOTT JOHNSON Song of a Wayfarer Because Americans rarely travel to Cuba, Scott Johnson had to go. He and his friend Steve Selwood spent five days in Havana in 1998, listening to music in one bar after another. Because he graduated with a minor in Jewish Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, he had to explore Egypt. There, Scott and his friends made their way into a pyramid off-limits to tourists. And before a second jet crashed into 2 World Trade Center, where Mr. Johnson worked as an analyst for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, he was making plans to visit South America next summer to explore a culture that fascinated him. Mr. Johnson, 26, played golf with his father in Montclair, N.J., where he grew up, and cheered the Yankees from his couch. He was cherished for his quiet, firm sense of what was important: family, friends, knowledge and adventure. For Eric Kusseluk, Mr. Johnson was the best friend who took calls at 3 a.m. when Mr. Kusseluk's mother was dying of cancer. For Mr. Johnson's father, Tom, he was the child devoid of any meanness. For friends who loved music as he did, he was a generous investor in a new live-music club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The fire of his passions changed you, people said. His brother, Tom, is still reading the book he recommended a few months ago: a biography of Che Guevara. And Mr. Selwood is still hoping to take that trip to South America someday. ================================= PREVENTATIVE POLICY - LETTER TO THE EDITOR, MIAMI HERALD: Re the Oct. 29 letter Wrong focus, which said that if Janet Reno and the Immigration and Naturalization Service had paid more attention to the terrorists coming into this country and less to Eli�n Gonz�lez, both catastrophes would have been prevented. I say that if this country established normal relationships with Cuba, then Eli�n, balseros drowning at sea and other tragedies would have been prevented. CELIA TORRES Miami Beach http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/letters/digdocs/107354.htm ==================================== $4M AID FOR CUBAN AND HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS MIAMI � Miami-Dade County has landed a $4 million federal grant that will be used for programs familiarizing newly arrived Haitian and Cuban immigrants with their rights and responsibilities under the American system of law enforcement. DETAILS: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sfl%2Ddgrant0 1nov01 ====================================== EXPLOSIVES TRIAL TO BEGIN IN HAVANA The Sun-Sentinel's Vanessa Bauza reports: (and note carefully their living conditions) HAVANA � Three Guatemalans accused of smuggling explosives into the Havana airport in tubes of toothpaste and shampoo bottles to bomb tourist hotels will go to trial today, after more than three years in jail. According to the Cuban government, the foiled plot was financed and directed by the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation. Prosecutors are seeking 20- to 30-year sentences for the defendants, although under Cuban law the charge could be punishable by death. Guatemala's Ambassador Hugo Ren� Guzm�n Maldonado said the prisoners have been living in the Guanajay prison in Havana for the past 31/2 years. "I've found them in good health and in normal psychological condition for someone detained," said Guzm�n Maldonado, who visited the prisoners on Saturday. "They've had medical care when they needed it. The couple [Gonz�lez Meza and Fern�ndez Mendoza] lives together." Frozen for 38 years, diplomatic relations between Cuba and Guatemala were re-established in January 1998, following the pope's visit. FULL STORY: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sfl%2Dacuba01 nov01 =================================== GUATAMALAN TRIO ON TRIAL IN HAVANA Published Wednesday, October 31, 2001 in the Miami Herald Three jailed in '98 over Cuba bombings go to trial this week BY NANCY SAN MARTIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Three Guatemalans jailed in Cuba since 1998 for allegedly participating in a bombing campaign at tourist spots are expected to go to court this week to face terrorism charges. The trial for Mar�a Elena Gonz�lez Meza de Fern�ndez, 57, her husband Jazid Iv�n Fern�ndez Mendoza, 31, and Nadel Kamal Musalam, also 31, is scheduled to begin Thursday. Cuban prosecutors are seeking maximum sentences of 20 to 30 years in the cases. The three were arrested in March 1998. Cuban authorities allegedly discovered explosive materials hidden in luggage. ``These three years have been really hard,'' said Gladis de Fern�ndez, mother of Jazid Iv�n Fern�ndez. ``My son is a goo d person.'' De Fern�ndez said she did not believe her son was involved in any sort of bombing attempts in Cuba. All three of the defendants are formally charged with ``crimes against state security.'' Cuban authorities have publicly labeled them terrorists and suggested they are tied with a Central American terrorist network responsible for a string of bombings in Havana and the resort city of Varadero, including one that killed an Italian tourist in 1997. The Cuban government also has alleged links between the bombings and Fidel Castro's opponents in Miami. Cuba has long claimed itself as a victim of terror tactics financed by Cuban Americans in exile. Guatemalan officials had previously expressed outrage over the persistent delay of the trial, which culminated with Guatemala joining a United Nations vote in April to censure Cuba for its human rights record. ``Since '99 the Guatemalan government has focused efforts on getting them to trial,'' said Edgar Arana, the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry spokesman. ``We ask that the trial take place, though what happens in the trial is part of Cuba's internal legal system, which we respect.'' Relatives hope sentences can be served in Guatemala, but Arana said ``there are no treaties with Cuba about that.'' De Fern�ndez said she did not understand why the judicial process in Cuba has taken so long. ``I just hope it's a fair trial and that my son can come home.'' Guatemala correspondent Megan Feldman contributed to this report, which was supplemented with Herald wire services. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/carib/cuba/digdocs/099599.htm =================================== HEAVY RAINS OVER EASTERN CUBA Eastern Cuba drying out after heavy rains cause river overflow Associated Press October 31, 2001, 3:34 PM EST HAVANA -- Eastern Cuba was drying out Wednesday after heavy rains earlier in the week caused a river to overflow, briefly forcing several thousand people from their homes, state media said. There were no reports of injuries or deaths. The Sagua River in Sagua de Tanamo in the eastern state of Holguin, overflowed overnight Monday and caused the evacuation of more than 3,000 people, state television said. Sagua de Tanamo is in a remote area in the easternmost part of the Caribbean island. Of those evacuated, about 950 people were housed temporarily in government shelters, according to the government broadcast late Tuesday. About 400 homes were flooded, it added. A woman who answered the telephone at the provincial newspaper Ahora on Wednesday said the rains had stopped and many of the evacuees were returning home. Copyright � 2001, South Florida Sun-Sentinel ====================================== CELIA CRUZ DISCUSSES THE LATIN GRAMMYS (and tells Lydia Martin how swell she (CC) is: The second annual show originally was to have been telecast from Miami. But the threat of protest against artists from Cuba prompted organizers to move the show back to Los Angeles. It got scrapped after the terrorist attacks. Much of the controversy brewing in Miami over the participation of Cuban artists involved Cruz's category. She was up against two other grande dames of Cuban music -- country singer Celina Gonz�lez, and the queen of feeling, Omara Portuondo. All in their 70s, they had been friends before Fidel Castro took power. But they drew lines of separation when Celia left the island and the others decided to stay. Had all three met up for the Latin Grammys, it would have been a historic reunion. But it was a reunion -- and a political fraternizing -- some of Cuban Miami didn't want. But the three women did see each other about five years ago in a Cancun hotel. ``We were all there for a festival,'' Cruz said. ``I ran into Celina on a staircase. I wasn't going to ignore her. We had been friends in Cuba. So I said hello and she said hello.'' Later that day she ran into Portuondo, whose career had suffered over the years, until the Buena Vista Social Club CDs helped revive it. ``I said hello. And I invited her to eat. She was getting a very small per diem from Cuba for performing outside the island. And she had been my colleague and friend in the old days. ``I invited her to eat, not because I agree with her support of the Cuban government. But because I thought she could use a good meal.'' FULL STORY: http://www.miami.com/herald/content/features/digdocs/075773.htm ==================================== JUAN BOSCH, FRIEND OF CUBA, DIES 11/1 Ex-Dominican Republic President Dies By ANDRES CALA Associated Press Writer November 1 2001, 4:00 AM PST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Former President Juan Bosch died Thursday after a lengthy stay in the hospital, his personal physician said. He was 92. Bosch died around 3 a.m., when respiratory failure caused his heart to stop, Dr. Pedro Urena told The Associated Press. He had been receiving treatment for several ailments, including neurological and respiratory problems, in the Abel Gonzalez Advanced Medical Center. It was unclear when he would be buried but the funeral would take place in his home of Lavega, a rural farming town about 60 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, the capital. Earlier in the week, a blood clot in his leg had delayed his release from the hospital, where he had been since Sept. 28. In August, he had undergone a lung operation. The first democratically elected leader of the Dominican Republic, Bosch was elected president in December 1962 after the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo. He was ousted in 1963 by soldiers who accused him of being a communist. In 1965, leftist soldiers led an uprising demanding Bosch be restored. President Lyndon Johnson, fearing a Cuban-style revolution, sent in 20,000 Marines. U.S. troops occupied Santo Domingo for several months until a provisional government was formed. Bosch never regained power, but helped found two of the country's three main political parties. He also wrote more than 40 books. "Juan Bosch was a true pillar of democracy," former President Leonel Fernandez, the veteran politician's protege, said recently. In some seven decades in politics, Bosch was a towering figure. In a 1991 television interview, Bosch quipped that "the presidency is too small for me, as I already have built up a political and literary legacy in which my name will live on." Copyright 2001 Associated Press PHOTO: Former Dominican President Juan Bosch, speaking with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, in an undated file photo. Bosch died Thursday Nov. 1, 2001, after a lengthy stay in the hospital, his personal physician said. He was 92. (AP Photo/File) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20011101/wl/1004616441cuba_obit_bosch_ny11 1.html ====================================== TOURISM PLUMETS - IN FLORIDA, TOO Cuba has felt the aftereffects of 9-11 on its tourism business, but so has Florida, reports the Miami Herald, with a 40% occupancy drop. The numbers are out, the picture is stark, and the outlook is uncertain. According to Visit Florida, the state's tourist agency, hotel occupancy statewide sank 40 percent during the four weeks ending Oct. 17, and attendance at major attractions is down 20 percent. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/business/digdocs/104886.htm =================================== NICARAGUAN ELECTION COMMENTS: JEB BUSH ENDORSES ENRIQUE BOLANOS In a Miami Herald opinion article, the Florida governer goes all out for Bolanos in a full-length commentary, including: When Ortega governed Nicaragua, he instituted a totalitarian communist regime that violated human rights, censored the press, aided violent guerrilla movements in neighboring countries, trampled on the freedoms of expression and assembly and thwarted anyone who dared oppose it, forcing hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans into exile. Ortega unjustly confiscated properties, including many owned by U.S. citizens. He still lives in a house confiscated from its rightful owner. Some say that Ortega has changed, that years in the political wilderness have convinced him of the need for true democracy, open markets and good relations with his neighbors and the United States. This is what he would like us to believe, yet he is a foe of the values for which the United States stands. He also is a friend of our foes. He has a 30-year relationship with states and individuals who harbor and condone international terrorism. On the other hand, presidential candidate Enrique Bola�os is a man whose past indeed promises a future of freedom. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/opcol/digdocs/082495.htm ====================================== BEATRIZ PAREDES, A NEW P.R.I LEADER MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30 - Her party may be near collapse, but Beatriz Paredes refuses to indulge in eulogies...this rare woman at the top of Mexican politics said with surprising clarity that if her party wanted to be a credible opposition force, it must embrace calls for change, and not feel threatened by them. Ms. Paredes, 48, has emerged as one of the prominent architects of the reformed PRI. Her politics forged in the trenches of Mexico's peasant movements, she is at once representative of the party's past and its potential future. Ms. Paredes is trying to rally both the party faithful and potential new supporters, and she is seen as someone who could draw women and young people back to the PRI. Her support for feminist causes and her authority in political circles that are still dominated by men have helped raise her popularity among women. Young people see her political style - marked by colorful Indian clothing that honors her ancestry, speeches infused with references to literature, and a deft sense of decorum - as a powerful contrast to the conservative, pro-business forces led by President Vicente Fox. She has drawn attention both for her speeches and her actions, notably unifying her party, which for years had battled the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, behind an effort to allow the rebels to address Congress last spring. In an interview, Ms. Paredes called herself a center-leftist and a feminist. Some of her priorities include equal rights for Mexico's Indian minorities, higher wages for unskilled workers, financial support for the nation's principal public university and programs to help lift poor farmers out of poverty, malnutrition and illiteracy. "I believe more in the militants than the elite of the PRI," she said. In contrast to Mr. Fox, who is a former marketing executive who once ran Coca-Cola's Mexican operations and a Roman Catholic who puts his faith on display, Ms. Paredes embraces the workers' and peasants' causes on which her party was founded, and staunchly defends her party's traditional insistence on separating church and state. She was a legislator in her home state, Tlaxcala, at 21, a member of Congress at 27 and the second woman to serve as a governor in Mexico at 33. From there, she served in several high-level posts, including deputy interior secretary and ambassador to Cuba. MUCH LONGER STORY: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/international/americas/01MEXI.html ================================== PRINCIPLES DON'T APPLY TO ALL: a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald by William D. Clark, one of the three Miami firefighters suspended and reinstated later: Published Thursday, November 1, 2001 in the Miami Herald Principles don't apply to all Re Robert Steinback's Oct. 31 column, Trio's fiery views deserve protection: The column says that some people call my philosophy ``anti-white'' racism. I resent being labeled an anti-white racist. My parents bought me up better than that. What has been witnessed over the years is my reaction to the racist nature of some in this country who continue to treat me as if am three-fifths of a man. I take offense at America's immigration policies that repatriate Haitians while accepting Cubans with open arms. I take offense at local housing conditions that would displace more than 800 black residents of Scott Projects and give vouchers to only 80 tenants to return once a newer, more-upscale model is build. I take offense at America turning the incarceration of African-American men and women into an industry for profit and at those who say that African Americans don't deserve reparations. This country continues to aid Israel far more than it does blacks who helped build this country with free labor. As far as the fire department, when I came on some 18 years ago, there were widespread incidents of whites spitting in the food of some blacks and other inhumane treatment. Today, there still are some stations where blacks are afraid to go for fear of some reprisals. Only weeks before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Chief Dave Paulison issued a memo stating that mistreatment of the public and of black probationary employees by white and Hispanic officers will not be tolerated. But the mistreatment continues. I've always been taught to treat a person as you would have them treat you. But I've also been taught if someone hits you, you hit them back. I am not and have never been a racist. I graduated from the University of Northern Iowa where I was the second black captain on the football team in the school's history despite there being only four blacks on the entire squad at one time. I stand by the assertion that while the principles of the flag are laudable, I don't think this country has upheld those principles for all of its citizens. Until it does, I will continue to hold this country to the promises that it has made to all of us, not just a select few. WILLIAM D.C. CLARK Miami http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/letters/digdocs/059637.htm ===================================== _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
